Am I the only one (and inb4 hurr duur 7 billion people ********), the only one who has only played the original games, and even though I still love pokemon have absolutely zero motivation for buying any new games they make for it?

I mean you guys like to give Call of Duty and E.A. so much **** for reproducing the same games year after year, but then throw your money al each and every pokemon version. Cause I mean, yea pokemon was good.. the first time I played it

I've played the original, but my favourite is still Pokemon Crystal given that it's my first Pokemon game and one of my first GBC games (next to Zelda: Oracle of Seasons). I am not going further than G2, though; R/B/Y and G/S/C did it for me.

in terms of basic gameplay this is true. there are however a lot of differences that make each game it's own. for example:

red/blue has little to no story. it was realy just pokemon basics. gen 5 is one big feel fest with great stories and more detailed characters. this is just one of many changes and it doesn't limit itself between gen 1 and 5.

You kind of do actually, there are these things called reviews and gameplay videos that help me and many other people determine whether or not they would like to buy a game and if they would enjoy it.
To be honest, any Pokemon after Ruby fell off my radar completely, it all just seemed boring, the original 150(or 151 i forget) are much more interesting in my opinion.

I don't know what you mean by playing pokemon competitively, and if you're talking PvP, Call of Duty id the same way. And adding another dimension? are you talking about walking diagnally? Because I'm pretty sure CoD put that in from the start.

With each new generation of CoD adds new perks, equipment, which can drastically change how people strategize and play CoD competitively. Not like pokemon where they just add a bunch of new pokemon
Do NOT compare CoD to a **** tiered game like Pokemon
And walking diagonally is a pretty big change in the pokemon franchise, cause ya know it only took them 15 years and 12 (main franchise) games to do it in.

This is how stupid you sound. I'm not saying Call of Duty is better I am just acknowledging that they are both ********* games

I understand you can be any age to like pokemon. But the first games were new fresh creative, and innovative. This new game only a fraction of that innovation. Thats why my 8 year old self said it, because he liked the games because they were new and different.